It’s been a classic look for nearly 40 years now. I like the look, but in L.A. it’s almost always too warm for blazers. Well, for me at least.
So is legalizing pot, but we’re voting on it in my state this year. An issue never goes away as long as there are a great many people who want to do something, but continue to be told by those in authority they aren’t allowed to, and will face serious consequences if they persist. Which, I suppose, underscores how much most of us love our jeans. Maybe we should have another proposition next year banning anti-jeans dress codes.
Well, all trends come and go in and out of fashion and people still wear them, so there’s that. In the last season coming into the fall, it is very trendy to do a blazer look for women- much more so than past seasons where wraps or military jackets were much more on trend.
Perhaps related to the same age-related gene that compels attractive women to butcher their hair short upon passing that age ? I read that up to the middle of the 20th century it was a custom for older women in Central & Latin Europe to surrender to age and only wear dowdy black dresses, as a kind of expected uniform — not the upper classes, of course. Shorter hair as an expression of ‘growing up’ appears to be a similar way of giving in and conforming to societal expectations.
Personally I couldn’t care what people wear. Worrying about what others do or think is another form of degeneration.
I’m such a freaking degenerate, you guys. 
My wife’s of Italian heritage, and had several great aunts who’d come over from the old country around 1910 or so. As she explained it, the traditionally obligatory period of mourning was one year. In such big families as were typical of the era, and given the state of medical science, once you hit your forties and fifties, there was always someone in the family who’d died in the past year or so. So the motivation, at least, to wear black was almost always there.
Most guys do seem to like long hair on women, but I don’t think it’s a huge deal. Before we got married, my wife cut hers from below shoulder length to a bob, but she still looked good to me. OTOH, most perms look horrible in my opinion.
Perhaps, but I was referring to a deliberate social convention as a rite of passage, could have been a respect thing — the equivalent of bling and guns in hip-hop amongst elderly European women — which maybe showed one was no longer available for dalliance. Where I recently read it was in a 1930s book by a once famous journalist Beverley Nichols where he was spitefully suggesting the same custom of wearing only black should apply to older western women ( he was both gay and like many Edwardian children had extensive parent-complexes ).
looks down at his pants for a few moments
You know, I never really noticed, I wear blue jeans almost all the time when I’m not wearing something else (at work, usually I wear camo cargo pants; once a week I wear uncomfortable pressed blue rayon slacks.) If I need to be more comfortable while I’m at home, I’ll wear a loose-fitting pair of cotton running shorts, with the logo of the company I work for embroidered on them (Hey, they are comfortable, and I got them for free) Sometimes I’ll wear sweats if I need to be comfy and it’s cold.
I couldn’t tell you WHY I wear denim all the time, I just do. Always have. Sometimes I’ll wear khaki to change things up, but usually I default to denim. It’s comfortable, I never have to worry about tearing them or something, and they’re cheap to replace.
I also own a $250 wool business suit, the most comfortable thing I own. I can never come up with an excuse to wear it.
I have three long-haired white cats. That’s hell when it comes to laundry, since their hairs pill and weave themselves into almost every sort of fabric–except denim.
I love how he refers to certain aspects of American culture as “infantile.” Clearly, he has never been to Japan.
Also, bet you five bucks Grace Kelly would probably wear jeans if she were alive today. So quitcherbitchin’, George Will.
She’s been there; she’s done that. In 1954:
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Would Fred Astaire wear this?
It applies only to men. It’s also not a law so do whatever you want. I just don’t get it is all!
I wish you’d all just get off my lawn with your roller skating boards and your loud music.
sitting in his volkswagen blasting the Footloose soundtrack
Hey! Don’t MAKE me date your daughter and try to get you to let us have a Prom inside the city limits!
Oh, shit. He just went there.
Cheap and baggy jeans still wear out though, it’s just that the stress points are different. For instance if you sit on the floor cross-legged this stretches and strains the area where the seams meet in the crotch; also men use the pockets more which is another source of potential strain.
I wear mine pretty tight, especially for a guy, but I’ve never had a pair that “wore out”. And that’s wearing jeans that aren’t cheap, but not super expensive either.
ETA: I did have one pair of black Calvin Kleins that split up the back, and they weren’t super tight either. I’m not buying Calvins again, let me tell you!
You can have my denim when you take it from my cold dead hands.
I’ve been buying a lot of jeans from Old Navy this past year. I also lliked a couple of the things in DiosaBellisima’s links, like the high heeels, but not the ruffly blouses. I don’t want to wear them everywhere but i will wear them to a concert. I hem my jeans up a little because i have short legs, and don’t want to trip over hems.
The only thing i really dislike about Old Navy jeans is that most of them seem to be flares. I don’t think flares are good for me, but if i had longer legs…
George Will owes me five bucks! 
And that style is not unlike styles I see being sold in stores today.
The only place my jeans have ever worn out is in the belt loops. No matter how hard I try to get jeans that fit (even getting a professional fitting this last time) I always wind up with jeans that are too big, and I have to cinch them up with a belt. And one belt loop always winds up breaking.
The opposite always happens with dress pants–the button comes off. But at least that’s a fairly easy fix.
ETA: My newest pair of jeans also has the widest legs. I’m oddly proportioned and don’t look as big as I am.